A Man's Place (edition 2012)

The is my first novel to Annie Ernaux ,she mixes both formal and slang language in a unique way,i cant say i like it,but it was new for me,she wrote with her own special writing style,very smooth not complicated at all....and narrates in an open and honest way...
a short autobiography about the life of her father and her relation to him until his death....
her childhood memories, the strange image she hold for her father ,love and at the same time embarrassment of his habits as a peasant....
although he was an ambitious hard working man,who manged to have his own cafe ,she still ashamed of his poor education and looking down at him,and thinks that he was jealous that she could got a better education than he have got,and even think that he get angry when he sees her reading......
she developed a humiliated portrait of a father...
so many complexities and psychological problems of the father daughter relationship....
her marriage which was for her a desire to change her former social class .....


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My review is in issue 3 of Belletrista:

http://belletrista.com/2010/issue3/features_5.php ( )

This is a book that can be read again and again. It is about the relationship between a daughter and her father. ( )

Years ago I asked Mike Wetherill who was a professor of French at Manchester who was the best living author in France. He mentioned Annie Ernaux as up there. La place and La femme are novels I have really enjoyed. ( )